Definition of couplet in English:

noun

Sonnet 126 is, unusually, a poem in six rhymed couplets rather than a sonnet proper.

In 1705 he published The Campaign, a poem in heroic couplets in celebration of the victory of Blenheim.

It is composed in fluent, almost chatty couplets, with marvellous evocations of the deserted Venetian lido and twinkling lagoon: 'I love all waste / And solitary places; where we taste / The pleasure of believing what we see / Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.'